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WE ARE FROM HERE, 2012

WE ARE FROM HERE, 2012

Billboard project in Ramallah

Ramallah has 27,000 inhabitants, is located in the West Bank approximately 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem, and is the home of the Palestinian Authority.

In 2012, the billboard project WE ARE FROM HERE (Ehna men hon) was shown in the streets of Ramallah. Five Palestinian visual artists, Lucia Ahmad, Rana Bishara, Asma Ghanem, Tanya Habjouqa and Omaya Salman, celebrated International Women’s Day (8 March) by presenting their personal and artistic proposals for an image of women in public space.

Billboards are very widespread in Ramallah and the majority of the city space is wallpapered with adverts. On the other hand, they hadn’t been used in an artistic context which in itself thematised the power and content of the advertisements. WE ARE FROM HERE (Ehna men hon) challenged the Palestinian stereotyping of gender roles, since women got the chance to express themselves in public space on entirely their own premises.

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WORKING CLASS HEROES, 2010

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WORKING CLASS HEROES, 2010

Video Projection Damascus

The image of President Al-Assad was present everywhere on the facades and billboards of Damascus. In order to establish an opposition to this one-sided impression, the idea of the project was to portray the street vendors of Damascus and have them appear in a video loop which focused on their individuality. By incorporating buildings in Damascus, Working Class Heroes was visible to everyone and at the same time gave the place a spatial dimension.

The project was based on showing 50 different portraits of street vendors in Damascus, which were projected onto a number of facades in the city centre, close to the Citadel and the Al Hamidiyeh souk. The names of the portrayed were part of the video, and a labyrinthine story arose in interplay with the portraits, in which the street vendors of Damascus took the leading roles in a modern Arabian Nights.

Damascus is the capital city of Syria with a population of 5 million, and is thought to be the oldest city in the world. It is a multicultural melting pot with intensive street trading. The square next to the Al Hamidiyeh souk sees a lively traffic of pedestrians and was therefore the ideal choice for the video projection.

The project was brought to an end by the secret police.

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INSIDE OUT, 2009

INSIDE OUT, 2009

Site-specific slide projection

The private sphere met public space when pictures from photo albums were projected onto buildings in Abel Cathrines Gade and Viktoriagade streets.

The aim of the project was to make the residents of the quarter visible, and make their private photo archives visible to one another. Images streamed out of the windows of individual apartments on Abel Cathrines Gade and Viktoriagade onto the walls opposite. There were 50 projections in all, together with an inviting, luminous photographic installation. Several aspects were in play: a specific visual output, with which Inside Out turned the buildings inside out; but also a social aspect, in which the residents turned themselves inside out — which images did they chose to show, and how did people on Abel Cathrines Gade and Viktoriagade see themselves and the world in 2009?*

*INSIDE OUT was part of an Open Call project initiated by the Danish Arts Foundation’s Committee for Art in Public Space.

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A CORNER OF A KINGDOM, 2008

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A CORNER OF A KINGDOM, 2008

Video Projection

Artjom, Salman, Nohadra and many other children, were born and raised in the Sandholm camp. They’ve spent their childhood under circumstances, that we would never allow our own children to grow up under. An inhuman and indecent refugee policy hits the children hard.

For us to experience and get insight into the reality of the asylum children in the Sandholm camp, the children were encouraged to photograph their daily lives with one time use cameras. A selection of the photographs were edited together to a film-montage, and was shown as a moviespot on Copenhagen metro stations during the Christmas week.

‘A Corner of a Kingdom’ was projected up on the nine metro stations and was shown 2200 times a week.

Collaboration with Per Kragh Müller.

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OPEN AIR, 2006

OPEN AIR, 2006

Projection

In the form of a visual images of 50 refugees appeared after sunset, in the public space of six danish cities in november 2006. Refugees are people that have been persecuted in their homeland and therefore have found protection in another part of the world.

Approximatly 120.000 people have come to Denmark as refugees in the last 50 years. A fact which The Danish Refugee Council put focus on in relation to their 50th aniversary in November.

The portraits were by the aid of a 17 meter tall crane projected onto buildings, resulting in pictures of 25 + 25 meters in size. The portraits had been taken by artist Hanne Lise Thomsen who was also the artistic director of the project.

Hanne Lise Thomsen says: “Through photographic portraits of 50 refugees we highlighted the individual persons story. We wanted to show how refugees look, how different they are and how they still are similar to all of us’’. The images were paired with a short text by and about the individual refugees.

The projections were shown in Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Kolding, Odense, Ålborg and Århus.

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THE HOMELESS OF NEW YORK CITY…, 2005

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THE HOMELESS OF NEW YORK CITY WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY HOLIDAY, 2005

Video Projection

Some people live in luxury, others have nothing at all — not even a home. The project The Homeless of New York City Wish You All a Happy Holiday was a comment on this social discrepancy, which is further thrown into relief in December. Using large outdoor slide projections (25 x 25 m), the project literally shed light on the people who live on the underside of society. 30 black and white portraits of homeless people were projected onto two walls at Broadway and Howard Street, and were accompanied by the text: The Homeless of New York City Wish You All a Happy Holiday. Doing the project in Manhattan seemed to be the obvious choice, since the contrast between people who live in penthouses and cardboard boxes is constantly felt as you move around the city.

Manhattan is a symbol of western wealth and consumer culture. In December a surfeit of fairy lights is illuminated everywhere, while on the city’s innumerable advertising hoardings various department stores and telecom companies wish everyone a very merry Christmas.

The project challenged the commercial Christmas message through its monumental portrait projections, and called to mind the fact that for many people in New York, neither Kashmir sweaters nor jewellery from Tiffany’s are top of the wish list, but quite simply a roof over their head. The project highlighted this almost absurd social inequality by drawing attention to people without homes, whom the project The Homeless of New York City Wish You All a Happy Holiday literally put a face to.

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WOMEN FOR PEACE, 2005

WOMEN FOR PEACE, 2005

Slide projection

Every day the news is full of reports about people who suffer because of wars and armed conflicts all around the world. At the same time it is a fact that several billions dollars are spent on armament every single day.

The visual art manifestation WOMEN FOR PEACE was an attempt to draw attention to this absurd situation by putting the conflicts in perspective and giving reason a voice. The idea was to have 30 women of different nationalities, ages, and backgrounds send a greeting to the citizens of Copenhagen on International Women’s Day.

30 black and white portraits (30 x 30 m) were projected onto the DLG building at Nordhavn station, accompanied by a number of factual texts which formed the background for the women’s demands for peace.

The exclamation women for peace was a form of chorus which was repeated over and over. The projection therefore took on the character of a cacophonous chorus, in which the many different female voices rose above the roofs of the city with a common message, which was not to be misunderstood.

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WOMEN2003

WOMEN2003

Billboard Project

In the spring of 2003 a different image type of women than the usual, stereotypical advertising images created at the intersection of advertising and pornography, could be seen on the periphery of the city.

For a period of two weeks, 100 female artists from all around Scandinavia showed their photographic works on 100 billboards at intersections, motorway exits, railway stations, and in the city’s many underground car parks. Billboards have monumental and great visibility in public space, and were therefore the ideal medium for a project which aimed to establish new experiences in the interaction of women and space. The underlying aim of the project WOMEN2003 was to draw a more diverse and nuanced picture of women in public space, and in this way take up a direct and confrontational dialogue with advertising’s predictable depiction of women.

The point of departure for all the participants was the billboard format 333 x 236 cm and the use of photography.

The complexity of the city and its constantly changing atmospheres were likewise important impulses for the project, and shaped, so to speak, an overarching choreography for WOMEN2003, in which the placement of the individual images played an important role.

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ENRICHETTA BANDIERINI, 2003

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ENRICHETTA BANDIERINI, 2003

Installation

In october 2000 my italian nanny Enrichetta Bandierini, passed away. This exhibition at Galleri Leonardi V-idea in Genova, the city where she as a 16 year old girl worked in a factory, is a final greeting to her.

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URBAN RIDE, 2002

URBAN RIDE, 2002

Billboard Project

10 billboards with motives from The Tube, London. The project was shown at Nørreport Station, platform 3, June 4, 2002.

Collaboration with Per Kragh-Müller.